sunil@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Sunil Trivedi) (06/18/85)
Recipients of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award ============================================ UN Secretary General,U Thant 1965 Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumous) 1966 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1967 Yehudi Menuhin 1968 Mother Teresa 1969 President of Kenya,Kenneth Kaunda 1970 President of Yugoslavia,Josip Broz Tito 1971 Andre Malraux 1972 President of Tanzania,Julius K. Nyerere 1973 Raul Prebisch 1974 Jonas Salk 1975 Giuseppe Tucci 1976 Tulsi Meherji Shrestha 1977 Nichidatsu Fujii 1978 Nelson Mandela 1979 Barbara Ward 1980 Alva & Gunnar Myrdal 1981 Leopold Sedar Senghor 1982 Bruno Kreisky 1983 P.M.,Indira Gandhi (posthumous) 1984 About the Award =============== The Gov't of India instituted the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding as a tribute to India's first Prime Minister. The Award is made by a jury appointed by the Gov't of India. The jury consists of the Vice-President of India, the Chief Justice of India, one chief justice from a State High Court, one vice-chancellor of a university, one person representing the press, and two emminent persons from public life in India. The Award carries an amount of 250,000 rupees (Rs. 250,000) which is convertible into foreign cur- rency. <Source: INDIA NEWS, May 20, 1985> Since I'm not familiar with all the names on the table above, would someone like to help me with their identities (like who they are & why they were considered for the Award)? Looking at the above list, one could possibly believe that some of the choices were politically influenced. Sunil Trivedi sunil@ut-ngp.ARPA ...!ut-sally!ut-ngp!sunil
bhatnaga@topaz.ARPA (Bhatnaga) (06/19/85)
> > Recipients of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award > ============================================ > UN Secretary General,U Thant 1965 > Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumous) 1966 (We all know, American Civil Right Movement Pioneer) > Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1967 (Known as Frontier Gandhi, God Knows whether he is a Pakistani or Afghan, Mostly he lives in Pakistan- Socio-political leader-more 'socio' than 'Political') > Yehudi Menuhin 1968 (Please fillup the Gap ------ ) > Mother Teresa 1969 (One of the exceptional few among our people whom we recognized before the 'west') > President of Kenya,Kenneth Kaunda 1970 > President of Yugoslavia,Josip Broz Tito 1971 > Andre Malraux 1972 > President of Tanzania,Julius K. Nyerere 1973 > Raul Prebisch 1974 > Jonas Salk 1975 > Giuseppe Tucci 1976 > Tulsi Meherji Shrestha 1977 > Nichidatsu Fujii 1978 > Nelson Mandela 1979 (South African Black leader; After the current DIVESTMENT movement in US univs almost every one knows him. In south African prison for more than 2 decades) > Barbara Ward 1980 > Alva & Gunnar Myrdal 1981 (Gunnar Myrdal was a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (??); He is the auther of the book the ASIAN DRAMA. Alva Myrdal is Gunnar Myrdals wife. If I am not wrong she is also a nobel prize winner (??). > Leopold Sedar Senghor 1982 > Bruno Kreisky 1983 > P.M.,Indira Gandhi (posthumous) 1984 (Who doesn't know?) > Since I'm not familiar with all the names on the table above, > would someone like to help me with their identities (like who > they are & why they were considered for the Award)? Looking > at the above list, one could possibly believe that some of the > choices were politically influenced. > > Sunil Trivedi > sunil@ut-ngp.ARPA > ...!ut-sally!ut-ngp!su Sunil did a good job by posting this list. I would very much like to have a fully compiled list with introduction of the receipients of the award. I have added what I knew about some of these personalities. Please add about the others and feel free to edit the misinformation by me. I hope to find the details (about the others) and add in here.
west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West) (06/21/85)
In article <1843@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> sunil@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Sunil Trivedi) writes: > > Recipients of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award > ============================================ > UN Secretary General,U Thant 1965 > Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumous) 1966 > ... Sorry to be of absolutely no help, but I must point out that King was assassinated in 1968 (March?), a few months before Bobby Kennedy (June). It would have been politically embarrassing to give him a posthumous award before his death. -- Larry West Institute for Cognitive Science (USA+619-)452-6220 UC San Diego (mailcode C-015) [x6220] ARPA: <west@nprdc.ARPA> La Jolla, CA 92093 U.S.A. UUCP: {ucbvax,sdcrdcf,decvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!sdcsla!west OR ulysses!sdcsla!west
johnt@utai.UUCP (John Turner) (06/21/85)
In article <1843@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> sunil@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Sunil Trivedi) writes: > > Recipients of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award > ============================================ . . . > President of Kenya,Kenneth Kaunda 1970 . . . > > Sunil Trivedi > sunil@ut-ngp.ARPA > ...!ut-sally!ut-ngp!sunil My father was in Zambia last year, and I am certain that he said that Kenneth Kaunda was the president of that country. Could someone comment on this please. John Turner
sunil@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Sunil Trivedi) (06/23/85)
> From: entropy!eric@uw-beaver.arpa (Eric Ossiander) > To: sunil@ut-ngp.arpa > Subject: Nehru_Award > Your list has Kenneth Kaunda, president of Kenya winning the award. > Kenneth Kaunda is the president of Zambia and I would find it hard to > imagine that he has ever won such an award. You probably meant Jomo Kenyatta, > the late president of Kenya, and hero of the Mau-Mau rebellion in {message is reported in entirity...seems to be cut-off} As noted to me by Eric Ossiander, Kenneth Kaunda is the President of Zambia, not of Kenya. No, Kenneth Kaunda did receive the Nehru award. I made the mistake of calling him the President of Kenya. Like I said in my original posting, I'm sure there was at least a little politics involved in the selection of some of the Award winners (especially political figures like Kenneth Kaunda). I'm surprised that a followup stating this error on my part was not brought up on net.nlang.africa. And again, thanks to Eric for the correction. Sunil Trivedi sunil@ut-ngp.ARPA \ / ut-sally netword \ / ut-ngp | sunil
srradia@watmath.UUCP (sanjay Radia) (06/24/85)
Kenneth Kaunda is the president of Zambia and not Kenya.
In 1970, Kenyata was the president of Kenya.
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CSNET: srradia%watmath@waterloo.CSNETchaiklin@umn-cs.UUCP (Seth Chaiklin) (06/25/85)
Here are a few more identifications.
In article <2323@topaz.ARPA> bhatnaga@topaz.ARPA (Bhatnaga) writes:
Recipients of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award
============================================
Yehudi Menuhin 1968
(violinist)
Andre Malraux 1972
(French novelist--"La condition humaine"
Jonas Salk 1975
(discovered polio vaccine)
Alva & Gunnar Myrdal 1981
Alva Myrdal nobel prize for Peace
Bruno Kreisky 1983
(Prime Minister of Austria (?)phoenix@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (John H. Johnson) (06/26/85)
In article <2323@topaz.ARPA> bhatnaga@topaz.ARPA (Bhatnaga) writes: >> >> Recipients of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award >> ============================================ >> UN Secretary General,U Thant 1965 . . etc . . >> Sunil Trivedi >> sunil@ut-ngp.ARPA >> ...!ut-sally!ut-ngp!su > >Sunil did a good job by posting this list. I would very much like to >have a fully compiled list with introduction of the receipients of the >award. I have added what I knew about some of these personalities. Here's my addition: >> Leopold Sedar Senghor 1982 (Past President of Senegal, and one of the most well read and widely respected Statesman in modern African history; he never received the western 'press' he deserved.) 0 0 (Crises?.... What Crises?) ^ \_/ John Phoenix@ucbtopaz ucbvax!ucbtopaz!phoenix
mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) (06/27/85)
> My father was in Zambia last year, and I am certain that he said that > Kenneth Kaunda was the president of that country. Could someone comment on > this please. > John Turner Kaunda is indeed the Zambian leader. The president of Kenya in 1970 was Jomo Kenyatta, who led the country from independence from the British until his death in the mid 1970s. The current Kenyan president is Daniel Arap Moi Hope this helped Marcel Simon